Yahoo! oneConnect Brings Mobile Social Networking To Life

Yahoo! oneConnect Brings Mobile Social Networking To Life

After having been in the limelight for all the wrong reasons – announcing layoffs for a 1,000 people and then receiving an unsolicited take-over offer by Microsoft – Yahoo! is trying to revive its sagging fortunes by introducing a new service which promises to revolutionise the way users will communicate.

The service will allow users to stay up to date with all their contacts at all times. In other words, Yahoo! oneConnect will be the first service which integrates email, IM, SMS and social networks. Its features include:

Social contact card – ability to store all relevant information about all contacts

Location sensing technology to alert users when contacts are nearby

Open communications platform bringing the ability to communicate through multiple means including IM, SMS etc.

The above mentioned specifications are still under consideration and are by no means finalised. Several changes may have to be made before the service is actually introduced. Yahoo! oneConnect is expected to be available by the second quarter of 2008, on Yahoo! Go3.0 and on Yahoo!’s new mobile home page.

This is a great step for the future of mobile communications, as it will enable people to stay totally connected even while on the move.

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